Thank you for your interest in submitting your map to the HDMA. We accept submissions in a variety of ways. Please choose whichever method is most convenient for you.
- Our goal is to share the maps you have found or created with the widest audience possible. To this end, we assume that you agree with our terms and conditions whenever you submit a map to the HDMA. Through June 2009, all maps will be considered for publication in either our upcoming book with Princeton Architectural Press or published directly to this website.
- With all submissions, please provide any information you would like included with your map such as location, name of submitter and/or creator, date, and description. We think the stories behind the maps are just as interesting as the actual map, so let us know the background story and we'll share it with everyone. We want to properly credit you, so please include as much information as possible.
- All map submitters will receive an official HDMA button. Please include your mailing address if you would like this sent to you.
Upload high quality images in any format using our drop.io fileshare. We prefer images at least 700 pixels in any one direction at 300 dpi or higher, but all submissions are welcome. Large files may take a few minutes to upload so please wait. You can send an email to info@handmaps.org with the map information or add comments to your file after you've uploaded it to drop.io. We review all submissions and often follow up with you before actually posting your map on the site.
Mail your original paper map to the address below. We actually prefer this method because your map will also become part of our permanent physical archive.
HDMA
c/o Kristofer Harzinski
440 North Concord Street
Lancaster PA 17603
United States
High quality jpegs of your map can be sent to the address below. We prefer images at least 700 pixels in any one direction at 300 dpi or higher, but all submissions are welcome.
Our goal at the HDMA is to share our collection of maps with the widest audience possible. To this end, by submitting work to the HDMA you grant us permission to use your sumbmission as indicated below. You still have the right to use your material in any way you see fit, you are simply allowing us to publish the work here and to share it in other ways such as exhibitions, publicity, and other publications in the future.
When you submit maps or other images or information to the HDMA, you are giving us a perpetual, royalty-free license (that is, "permission") to use, reproduce, publish, and otherwise exercise intellectual property rights (including copyright and rights of publicity) with respect to your submission, including storing it electronically and using or incorporating it in other works and in any media now known or later developed, including without limitation, in published books and public exhibitions. You also agree that we can use your submission at our discretion, including cropping, tinting, or otherwise altering it for our uses, and we can share it with the public through different methods. Finally, since this is a public project, you agree not to hold the HDMA or any of its members or agents responsible for any uses the HDMA or anyone else may make of your submission. If you have any concerns about sharing the information contained in your submission with the public, you should not submit it to the HDMA.
